[linux-dvb] System fails to boot on adding second DVB-T PCI card

[John Pilkington]

hermann pitton wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 10.01.2008, 01:13 +0200 schrieb Axel Thimm:
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>> Hi,
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>> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:42:19PM +0100, hermann pitton wrote:
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>>>>> video_buf: exports duplicate symbol videobuf_mmap_mapper (owned by 
>>>>> videobuf_core)
>>>>> video_buf: exports duplicate symbol videobuf_mmap_mapper (owned by 
>>>>> videobuf_core)
>>>>>           
>>> Guess this is the root of the problem. Axel's modules might fail to
>>> eliminate it.
>>>
>>> Mauro has converted the old single videobuf.ko to different types to be
>>> more flexible. Looks like you have an upgrade to the new types without
>>> that the old videobuf.ko is removed from your /lib/modules.../media
>>> stuff. Try to remove/delete it manually and "depmod -a".
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>> is there a way to somehow blacklist videobuf.ko w/o having to remove
>> it? The reason is that packagewise this belongs to the kernel rpm
>> which is managed by the upstream vendor (e.g. Red Hat, Fedora) and I
>> wouldn't want to nuke it - it would return anyway with the next kernel
>> update.
>>
>> Instead maybe some dummy alias or some remapping could be made to
>> effectively remove it from module-utils' radar w/o actually removing
>> the file? That would be much cleaner from a packaging POV.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>     
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> Hi Axel,
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> here it is de facto gone, if not anymore in the next kernel release.
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> What you do in between is up to you.
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> If you like to stay in sync as close as possible, of course v4l-dvb
> counts and not the delayed kernel stuff.
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> Greetings,
> Hermann
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I'm not sure what ideas people have about this after a spate of messages 
yesterday.  The dmesg extracts that I posted were from a forced reboot 
after an improper shutdown and might not be 'typical', so I just risked 
a normal reboot from cold.  This did not hang and has delivered a system 
that seems to be working properly, but during the udev phase and twice 
afterwards it reported on-screen that the video-buf.ko module was 
malformed.  This is not recorded in dmesg. 

I then did an auto shutdown/reboot sequence, again without hanging but 
with the same malformed-module message.

dmesg does still include repeated complaints about the duplicate symbol, 
as above, but there is no module videobuf.ko in the relevant directory.
> $ cd /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5/updates/drivers/media/video/
> $ ls -l videobuf*.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23232 Dec 27 11:21 videobuf-core.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18120 Dec 27 11:21 videobuf-dma-sg.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11616 Dec 27 11:21 videobuf-dvb.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11616 Dec 27 11:21 videobuf-vmalloc.ko
and the 'malformed' module is not there
> $ ls -l video-buf*.ko
> ls: video-buf*.ko: No such file or directory

The two dvb cards are
> saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f01d, board: Avermedia Super 007 
> [card=117,autodetected]


Thanks to all for your interest.  I hope this helps.

John Pilkington